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Principal component analysis (PCA) is a widespread technique for data analysis that relies on the covariance-correlation matrix of the analyzed data. However to properly work with high-dimensional data, PCA poses severe mathematical…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-18 Luigi Leonardo Palese

Mining useful clusters from high dimensional data has received significant attention of the computer vision and pattern recognition community in the recent years. Linear and non-linear dimensionality reduction has played an important role…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Nauman Shahid , Nathanael Perraudin , Vassilis Kalofolias , Gilles Puy , Pierre Vandergheynst

We consider the problem of learning a mixture of Random Utility Models (RUMs). Despite the success of RUMs in various domains and the versatility of mixture RUMs to capture the heterogeneity in preferences, there has been only limited…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-01 Devavrat Shah , Dogyoon Song

Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most widely used dimension reduction and multivariate statistical techniques. From a probabilistic perspective, PCA seeks a low-dimensional representation of data in the presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Chihao Zhang , Kuo Gai , Shihua Zhang

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is the most widely used tool for linear dimensionality reduction and clustering. Still it is highly sensitive to outliers and does not scale well with respect to the number of data samples. Robust PCA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-24 Nauman Shahid , Vassilis Kalofolias , Xavier Bresson , Michael Bronstein , Pierre Vandergheynst

Principal components analysis (PCA) is a widely used dimension reduction technique with an extensive range of applications. In this paper, an online distributed algorithm is proposed for recovering the principal eigenspaces. We further…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-20 Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh , Mohamad Kazem Shirani Faradonbeh , George Michailidis

In data containing heterogeneous subpopulations, classification performance benefits from incorporating the knowledge of cluster structure in the classifier. Previous methods for such combined clustering and classification either 1) are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Shivin Srivastava , Siddharth Bhatia , Lingxiao Huang , Lim Jun Heng , Kenji Kawaguchi , Vaibhav Rajan

This paper studies computationally efficient methods and their minimax optimality for high-dimensional clustering and signal recovery under block signal structures. We propose two sets of methods, cross-block feature aggregation PCA…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-14 Wu Su , Yumou Qiu

We study the distributed computing setting in which there are multiple servers, each holding a set of points, who wish to compute functions on the union of their point sets. A key task in this setting is Principal Component Analysis (PCA),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-24 Maria-Florina Balcan , Vandana Kanchanapally , Yingyu Liang , David Woodruff

Clustering algorithms are fundamental tools across many fields, with density-based methods offering particular advantages in identifying arbitrarily shaped clusters and handling noise. However, their effectiveness is often limited by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Meysam Shirdel Bilehsavar , Razieh Ghaedi , Samira Seyed Taheri , Xinqi Fan , Christian O'Reilly

Clustering is a cornerstone of modern data analysis. Detecting clusters in exploratory data analyses (EDA) requires algorithms that make few assumptions about the data. Density-based clustering algorithms are particularly well-suited for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Daniël Bot , Leland McInnes , Jan Aerts

In mixture models, anisotropic noise within each cluster is widely present in real-world data. This work investigates both computationally efficient procedures and fundamental statistical limits for clustering in high-dimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Chengzhu Huang , Yuqi Gu

Sparse Principal Component Analysis (sPCA) is a cardinal technique for obtaining combinations of features, or principal components (PCs), that explain the variance of high-dimensional datasets in an interpretable manner. This involves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Ryan Cory-Wright , Jean Pauphilet

This paper studies how to construct confidence regions for principal component analysis (PCA) in high dimension, a problem that has been vastly under-explored. While computing measures of uncertainty for nonlinear/nonconvex estimators is in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Yuling Yan , Yuxin Chen , Jianqing Fan

In this paper, we study the application of sparse principal component analysis (PCA) to clustering and feature selection problems. Sparse PCA seeks sparse factors, or linear combinations of the data variables, explaining a maximum amount of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-10-08 Ronny Luss , Alexandre d'Aspremont

We develop an iterative subsampling approach to improve the computational efficiency of our previous work on solution path clustering (SPC). The SPC method achieves clustering by concave regularization on the pairwise distances between…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-09-16 Yuliya Marchetti , Qing Zhou

Tensor clustering, which seeks to extract underlying cluster structures from noisy tensor observations, has gained increasing attention. One extensively studied model for tensor clustering is the tensor block model, which postulates the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Yuchen Zhou , Yuxin Chen

Dimensionality reduction is a critical preprocessing step for clustering high-dimensional data, yet comprehensive evaluation of its impact across diverse methods and data types remains limited. In this study, we systematically assess the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ousmane Assani-Amate , Mohammadreza Bakhtyari , Émilie Roy , Vladimir Makarenkov

A computational approach by an implementation of the Principle Component Analysis (PCA) with K-means and Gaussian Mixture (GM) clustering methods from Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to identify structural and dynamical heterogeneities of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-01 Viet Nguyen , Xueyu Song

Modern data are increasingly both high-dimensional and heteroscedastic. This paper considers the challenge of estimating underlying principal components from high-dimensional data with noise that is heteroscedastic across samples, i.e.,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-14 David Hong , Fan Yang , Jeffrey A. Fessler , Laura Balzano